Poem by Thomas Urquhart

Epigrams. The First Booke. ¹ 12. A wise man onely may properly be said to enjoy life

His life is short, who present times neglects, 
	Feares times to come, and hath past-times forgot: 
Or rather, while he breaths his Age, hee makes 
	A base abode in time, but liveth not; 
For onely hee leades, in judicious eyes, 
The longest life, who lives, till he be wise.

1. Epigrams. The Third Booke. ¹ 1. How to behave ones selfe in all occasions
2. Epigrams. The Third Booke. ¹ 21. To one, who did confide too much in the sound temperament, and goodly constitution of his bodily complexion
3. Epigrams. The Second Booke. ¹ 31. As it was a precept of antiquity, to leane more to vertue, then parentage: so is it a tenet of christianity, to repose more trust on the blood of christ, then our owne merits
4. Epigrams. The Second Booke. ¹ 18. That we ought not to be sorie at the losse of worldly goods
5. Epigrams. The First Booke. ¹ 25. Vertue, and goodnesse are very much opposed by the selfe-conceit, that many men have of their owne sufficiencie

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